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CiteScore: 4.16ℹ
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Impact Factor: 3.915ℹImpact Factor:2016: 3.915The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years.
2017 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2018)

5-Year Impact Factor: 4.280ℹFive-Year Impact Factor:2016: 4.280To calculate the five year Impact Factor, citations are counted in 2016 to the previous five years and divided by the source items published in the previous five years.
2017 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2018)

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.598ℹSource Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):2016: 1.598SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.741ℹSCImago Journal Rank (SJR):2016: 1.741SJR is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and a qualitative measure of the journal’s impact.

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